Published: 04th May 2013 08:33 AM | Last Updated: 04th May 2013 08:33 AM
PCC chief Botcha Satyanarayana seems to have declared an all-out war against chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy.
The ongoing combat between the supporters and detractors of Kiran Reddy in the state Cabinet on Friday took an interesting turn with Botcha reportedly sending a note to the party high command about the ‘behaviour’ of the chief minister.
According to a close aide of the PCC chief, Botcha sent a report to the AICC state affairs in-charge Ghulam Nabi Azad on Friday. The leader claimed that Azad himself had asked Botcha to send a note on the controversy surrounding Bangaru Talli scheme.
In that ‘sitrep’, Botcha is understood have complained to the AICC top brass about the unilateral decisions being taken by the chief minister on key issues. It is learnt that, Botcha, who held a meeting with Kiran Reddy’s detractors such as C Damodara Rajanarasimha, K Jana Reddy, DL Ravindra Reddy and Vatti Vasantha Kumar at his residence here on Thursday, also included the opinions of them in his report.
According to sources, health minister DL Ravindra Reddy explained about a similar scheme announced for girls by former chief minister late YS Rajasekhar Reddy in 2005, to Botcha during their meeting. The scheme, which envisages insuring some amount with LIC which would give the child Rs 1 lakh when she attains the age of 18 years, was discontinued as the government has not paid premiums properly. Hence, Ravindra objected to Bangaru Talli, thinking that it too would meet the similar fate as he felt that the new scheme was launched without a proper exercise. Citing the objections raised by Ravindra over Bangaru Taalli, Botcha in his report is understood to have told his party leadership that the chief minister was not taking the Cabinet into confidence while formulating new schemes.
The PCC chief is also learnt to have referred to the recent outburst of panchayat raj minister K Jana Reddy at the chief minister for not informing him about the decision of allocating Bayyaram mines to the Vizag Steel Plant in the report, to substantiate his argument that some ministers were not happy over the way Kiran Reddy is dealing with them.
However, in an informal chat with reporters at Gandhi Bhavan on Friday, Botcha said he had no issues with the chief minister to revolt against him. “We are not holding any dissident activities against Kiran Reddy. As I am the PCC chief, some ministers have been calling on me to discuss party affairs,” he said.
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